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etmTk is an event and task manager. In contrast to most calendar/todo applications, creating items (events, tasks, and so forth) in etm does not require filling out fields in a form. Instead, items are created as free-form text entries using a simple, intuitive format and stored in plain text files. Both a graphical user interface based on Tkinter and a command line interface are provided.

Release Notes: The development status has changed to 5-Production/Stable. An available dates calculator has been added.

shipper is a power distribution tool for developers with multiple projects who do frequent releases. It automates the tedious process of shipping a software release and (if desired) templating a project Web page. It can deliver releases in correct form to SourceForge, Berlios, and Savannah, and knows how to post a release announcement to freecode.com via freecode-submit.

Release Notes: Adds the Validate field for smoke-testing before deliverables are shipped.

British bingo runs in your browser and uses 3 by 9 boards. The game simulates the other players. Players make mistakes and chat. Players leave, join, and re-join between and during games. You can have over 10,000 players. You can hear the players and the caller talk. You can change the sizes to fit a small screen

Release Notes: With this release, other boards at your table can face away from you. There is another animation when a player has a 'house', which rotates the page. This release also fixes five small bugs. The code is now a little more compact.

Dowse eases the configuration of network routing for a local area network, starting from the setup of ARP-level static entries of known peers, IP-level firewall, DHCP configuration, and local DNS cache, up to an application layer transparent proxy and optional gateways to anonymous networks such as Tor and I2P. It consists of a minimalistic script which can run on any GNU/Linux box and which, from a central configuration point, controls Ebtables, Iptables, and all the daemons needed for such operations: DnsMasq, Squid2, and Privoxy. It comes with a module system for contributed add-ons like DNSCrypt-proxy and HTTPS-everywhere.

Release Notes: Starting and stopping Dowse now works faster. New and safer iptables rules have been adopted and the code has been reorganized. The Squid/Privoxy functionality was moved into a module, preserving only firewalling and dnsmasq as the core functionalities of Dowse. A comprehensive whitepaper is distributed with the source, outlining future plans.

Fix8 is a modern open source C++ FIX framework featuring complete schema driven customisation, high performance, and fast application development. The system is comprised of a compiler for generating C++ message and field encoders, decoders, and instantiation tables, a runtime library to support the generated code and framework, and a set of complete client/server test applications. For the same message, Fix8 encodes 3.2 times faster and decodes 2.3 times faster than Quickfix, an average of 2.7 times. In other words, it reduces encode latency by 69% and reduces decode latency by 56%.

Release Notes: This release adds some important improvements that many users have been asking for, and also marks the fork of Fix8Pro, the commercially supported version. C++11 compiler support is now required. Windows NuGet package support, multisession (client/server) support, and default configuration settings were added.

StoneVPN is a system that makes it easy to create certificates and configuration files for use with an OpenVPN server for both Windows and Linux users. It has the ability to create a zip file and e-mail the entire package to a user. It uses pyOpenSSL and custom patches that allow it to manage a CRL file.

Release Notes: Support for Android devices was added. A bug with empty lines in the configuration file was fixed.

gif2png is a simple command-line utility to convert images from GIF to PNG format. It automatically preserves transparency, interlacing and text comments, and it can do multiple images in one command (e.g., gif2png *.gif). The distribution also includes a web2png script that can be used to convert an entire web tree; it calls gif2png to do image conversions, then patches IMG SRC tags correctly in referring pages.

Release Notes: Minor regular expression fixes in web2png. The missing autogen.sh was supplied, and the autogonf build was updated.

Oracletool is an interactive, Web-based application for Oracle Database administration. The advantage of Oracletool over non-Web-based tools is that nothing needs to be installed on the client-side machine or in your databases. All you need to use Oracletool, once installed, is a Web browser.

ssh-installkeys allows the user to export SSH public keys
to a specified site. It will walk the user through
generating key pairs if it cannot find any to export. It
handles all the details like making sure local and remote
permissions are correct.

MQ Channel Auto Creation Manager (MQCACM) is an MQ Channel Auto-Definition (MQ CHAD) exit which allows a company to control and restrict incoming connection requests to auto-create a channel. MQCACM is invoked when a request is received to start an undefined Receiver, Server-Connection, Cluster-Receiver, or Cluster-Sender channel. MQCACM can modify or clear the supplied default channel definition values for an instance of the channel, so there is no exit incompatibility (cross-platform or otherwise).

gnoduino is an implementation of the well-known Arduino IDE for GNOME. The original Arduino IDE software is written in Java. This is a Python implementation and it is targeted at GNOME. Its purpose is to be light, while maintaining compatibility with the original Arduino IDE. The source editor is based on gtksourceview.

Release Notes: This release adds support for Arduino 1.0.5. Support for new programmers and non-serial programmers was added. It is now possible to force programmer selection using a keyboard shortcut. Initial work on supporting auto-detecting plugged devices was done. More fixes were made in default startup and the code preprocessor.
An import library menu option was added, and code examples menu options were fixed.

deheader analyzes C and C++ files to determine which header inclusions can be removed while still allowing them to compile. This may result in substantial improvements in compilation time, especially on large C++ projects. It also sometimes exposes dependencies and cohesions of which developers were unaware.

doclifter helps with lifting documents with nroff markup to XML-DocBook. Lifting documents from presentation level to semantic level is hard, and a really good job requires human polishing. This tool aims to do everything that can be mechanized, and to preserve any troff-level information that might have structural implications in XML comments. TBL tables are translated into DocBook table markup, PIC into SVG, and EQN into MathML (relying on pic2svg and GNU eqn for the last two).

Release Notes: Minor improvements for strange edge cases, a work around bugginess of --postvalid in recent xmllint versions, and a cleanup for new version of pylint.

ProjectForge is a Web-based solution for project management including time sheet booking, Gantt charts, financial administration and controlling, issue management, and managing work-break-down structures. First-party and third-party plugins are supported. Ready-to-run packages of the ProjectForge server are available for Windows, Mac OS X, and all Java6-capable platforms (database and Web server are included). ProjectForge is also available as a web-archive file (war) for usage within your own Web server and for your own database installation.

Release Notes: New versions of front-end technologies (Bootstrap 3 and jquery.mobile). The scripting engine now supports the export of zip files. Minor bugs were fixed.

TemplateFx is a dynamic templating tool which allows you to generate output based on a template and some source data. It was designed to be used to generate configurations for CLI based devices like Cisco routers and switches.

Release Notes: This release adds support for IPv6 address manipulation to the "ip()" function as well as adding support for intelligent Undo and Redo buffers for Snippets. A couple of bugs were also evicted from this release.

Hypersocket is a cross-platform VPN solution built for all types of remote access scenarios. Powerful, yet simple to use, Hypersocket uses a single installed client to provide access to any number of network resources. Its powerful granular access means you can have fine-grained control over your entire network and remote users. Accessed through a secure HTTPS port, the Hypersocket client provides access to any number of host/port combinations, all assigned server-side by the Administrator through roles. The Administrator is able to configure the server through a Web portal on the same HTTPS port.

Release Notes: This release is a major stepping stone that lays the foundation for a plethora of new product extensions to follow. In addition to considerable bugfixes in both the server and client, this release introduces the Hypersocket extension store, a revamped bootstrap UI, and an updated client that supports synchronous connections to multiple Hypersocket VPN servers.

Ono is a configurable GUI system tray application from where you can easily handle Offlineimap and start any mail agent, including terminal agents like Mutt. Thanks to its builtin scripting language, you can even abuse Ono to serve any program without system tray support.

Release Notes: This is initial release. Most of the planned features are working, including full Offlineimap access and running mail agents. Documentation needs a little bit of an update.

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